Milantex wrote:Maybe if Japanese language gets to lose speakers due to the decline of native speaking population, maybe they should just get rid of Kanji and write everything in Hiragana and Katakana. That would save me a good deal of effort earning it!

But Japanese wouldn't be that interesting anymore. Much of its charm comes from it's writing system.

Milantex wrote:Maybe if Japanese language gets to lose speakers due to the decline of native speaking population, maybe they should just get rid of Kanji and write everything in Hiragana and Katakana. That would save me a good deal of effort earning it!

But Japanese wouldn't be that interesting anymore. Much of its charm comes from it's writing system.

Really? All of Japanese's charm, for me, comes from the awesome verbs.

Milantex wrote:Maybe if Japanese language gets to lose speakers due to the decline of native speaking population, maybe they should just get rid of Kanji and write everything in Hiragana and Katakana. That would save me a good deal of effort earning it!

But Japanese wouldn't be that interesting anymore. Much of its charm comes from it's writing system.

Really? All of Japanese's charm, for me, comes from the awesome verbs.

To me, Japanese is plenty interesting, kanji or not. The grammar alone is both enough to make me want to learn it and to despise it completely. Incidentally, the same could be said of Arabic, which is the only language I've learned worth a damn.

Talib wrote:To me, Japanese is plenty interesting, kanji or not. The grammar alone is both enough to make me want to learn it and to despise it completely. Incidentally, the same could be said of Arabic, which is the only language I've learned worth a damn.

Why not try Serbian, it's a challenge! C:

Anyway, now that you have mentioned Arabic, the writing script of a language that I am constructing has some similarity to Arabic. Once it is done to a reasonable extent I'll post it here!

And as for Japanese... yes... Kanji or not, you say... though reality is WITH unfortunately for me and a few others who I know, but since I basically learn Japanese from anime I don't get to do much reading, but rather a lot of listening!

I know, I know.. many linguists just hate the idea of someone learning a language by listening to it, 'coz when ever someone says that he had learned a language through TV, he usually sounds like a guy/girl from a TV show or some series that the linguist had also watched! :p